The European Magazine publishers Federation (FAEP) has attacked Friday’s announcement by the Government that tobacco advertising and sponsorship will be made illegal after 2006 (subscribers see Tobacco Sponsorship To Be Phased Out Over Nine Years).The Federation says that the ad ban “lacks a sound legal basis in Community law and clearly runs counter to the… Continue reading Publishers Ready To ‘Fight” Tobacco Ad Ban ‘All The Way’
The IPA has elected seven companies into its membership. They are:CIA Medianetwork UK Crammond Dickens Lerner & Partners Ltd Denton Design & Marketing Ltd IDK Media Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan Advertising Ltd The Negotiation Centre Teamworks AdvertisingThis brings the total number of agencies in IPA membership to 213, and the number of media specialists in full… Continue reading Changes At The IPA
Newsline will be interviewing Martin Dunn, editor of Associated New Media, which has just launched thisislondon.com. The interview will appear later this week.The only media-related financial results scheduled this week are final year figures from Daily Mail & General Trust, which are out on Thursday. Website of the Week will be the WPP site and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
In Brussels last night a meeting of the European Union’s health ministers decided, by the narrowest of margins, to phase out tobacco advertising and sponsorship over the next nine years. The ban will be implemented gradually seeing advertising of tobacco products ending in four years, most sponsorship in five and the support of sports events… Continue reading Tobacco Sponsorship To Be Phased Out Over Nine Years
Quality Market The quality market showed the largest year on year increase in circulations for June to November with an overall circulation of 2.957 million, up 5% year on year. Among these papers, the Sunday Telegraph and FT performed well with increases of 18% and 9.7% respectively. Papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – November
News Direct 97.3FM has secured a twelve month sponsorship deal with Yellow Pages worth £150,000. Yellow Pages is to be associated with the station’s entertainment news bulletins, Entertainment News Direct, of which there are 48 in 24 hours. Special scripts have been prepared by AMV to complement the different editorial content of the various bulletins.Entertainment… Continue reading Yellow Pages To Sponsor News Direct
The Internet arm of Associated Newspapers, Associated New Media (ANM), has just launched what editor Martin Dunn claims is the first totally comprehensive city guide to London. Dunn, former editor of the New York Daily News and Today, says that the This Is London (TIL) site (http://thisislondon.co.uk) is the result of the collation of material… Continue reading Interview – Martin Dunn, Associated New Media
Haymarket’s Campaign magazine will be launching a website next Spring. Campaignlive will be subscription-based and feature news, a diary of events and a debating forum. Readers of the magazine will be charged a subscription rate of £50 while for non-readers it will cost £60.Campaignlive: 0171 413 4297
